Social Structures Students Visit ArketypePictured at right (standing center) is Paul Meinke (A+D Graphic Design,1984) who is Principal and President of Arketype, a national, award-winning design and advertising firm located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Mr. Meinke and his staff graciously hosted a visit by two Social Structures classes traveling to Chicago in March. Students were provided with a tour of the firm's new headquarters and a presentation that featured examples of Arketype's services that include print, packaging, new media, and television. Arketype's client base is a broad mix of consumer product and business-to-business companies, from Fortune 500's to small businesses.
Arketypewww.arketypeinc.com/index.html
April 17, 2008
School Hosts Photoshop Wars 2008Photoshop Wars was hosted by the School of Art and Design on April 4, 2008. Students were given one hour to complete an image utilizing Adobe Photoshop. The image was based on a theme announced at the beginning of the event, which required fast idea development and even faster execution from the participants. The first battle of the day was a solo battle in which each participant completed an image and the battle was won by Chris Paluch. The solo event was followed by a team battle in which teams of two to four participants completed a single image. Coordinated by Stephan Larson, the event was created to have an entertaining, competitive arena for students to show-off their technical, design and conceptual skills. The time limit not only adds to the intensity of the battle, but also mimics a real-world situation where solutions often need to be completed in a very short timeframe. As added motivation, prizes were awarded by a panel of Art and Design faculty and a separate Audience Choice award was determined by the voting of participants and audience.
Photoshop Warsart.nmu.edu/pshopwars/
April 15, 2008
The DeVos Art Museum Hosts Visiting Artists and ScholarsThe DeVos Art Museum welcomed ten visiting artists and scholars over the past year in conjunction with exhibitions at the museum. As part of the visits, students had the opportunity to meet with the artists first hand in the classroom, participate in workshops, hear the artists talk about their work in the exhibitions and see the artists present slide lectures on their artistic practice. Last fall, Jeremy Tinder and Amy E. Mayfield met with students and gave tours of their work in the exhibition "Told and Retold: Stories From Chicago". In October, Yin Mei held a special workshop with dance students as part of her solo exhibition "Three Thousand Yin Mei". In January as part of the "reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow" exhibition, Rod Slemmons, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago) presented the lecture "Photography Without Boundaries". Angela Strassheim, whose work is featured in the reGeneration exhibition, visited from Minneapolis in February and gave a slide lecture about her work in the art history lecture hall. In March, Perin Mahler, Jim Nawara and Lucille Nawara, all part of the "7 Painters" exhibition, came for the reception and Perin Mahler also presented a slide lecture on his work.
images from top to bottom:
Jeremy Tinder (top left) giving a tour to an Illustration class and Amy E. Mayfield (bottom second from right) discusses her work with a Social Structures class.
art.nmu.edu/department/museum/index.htm
April 04, 2008
HCD Student Recognized in International Design CompetitionHuman Centered Design major, Amanda Leppi was recently recognized in an international design competition hosted by designboom.com. Her design, "Landscape Plate," was short listed out of 4843 designers from 98 countries and was displayed in Milan, Italy at Macef International Home Show. Amanda's design combines research of geographic information systems (GIS) in conjunction with behavioral rituals encompassed within the dining experience. For more information please see the link below.
designboomwww.designboom.com/contest/view.php?contest_pk=21&item_pk=19163&p=1
Human Centered Design
art.nmu.edu/department/human.html
March 18, 2008
Pless Prototype Featured in Cologne ExhibitA chaise lounge prototype by Professor Peter Pless (Human-Centered Design) was featured in the "Fabulous 50" exhibit at the 2008 International Furnishing Show in Cologne, Germany. The annual weeklong event, attended by Professor Pless, showcases the work of established design stars and creative newcomers whose creations, ranging from production-ready designs to blue-sky speculative concepts, represent the "interiors of tomorrow". Pless was one of only two Americans selected for the exhibit. For additional information about Professor Pless' furniture design see the link below to Kristi Evans' feature story in Campus.
CAMPUS Newsnewsbureau.nmu.edu/campus/2008/0215/pless.htm
Human-Centered Design
art.nmu.edu/department/human.html
Peter Pless Home Page
www.peterpless.com/
February 21, 2008
The February issue of AmericanStyle Magazine Features Alumni from the SchoolThe February issue of AmericanStyle magazine features five alumni from the School of Art and Design. Patrick Dragon, Kathleen Conover, Maureen Bergquist Gray, and Ed and Julie Risak. The article highlights each artist's work and their relationship to the beautiful but demanding environment of the upper peninsula of Michigan. The author of the article, Lynda McDaniel states: "This finger of land, tied to Michigan only by an address and a bridge, is so independent it could just as easily be the 51st state. Life here, unsullied by too many chain stores or media extravaganzas, moves ahead at its own pace, influenced less by modern culture than by nature and a rich history of Native Americans, logging and mining. A sort of artistic terroir flourishes, yielding artwork that is truly unique to this place".
AmericanStylewww.americanstyle.com/ME2/Default.asp
January 14, 2008
Professor Dale Wedig and Metalsmithing Student Alex Drummer Featured in New BookThe artwork of NMU Professor Dale Wedig (Metalsmithing, School of Art & Design) and student Alex Drummer (BFA Metalsmithing, December 2007) is included in a recent publication by Lark Books entitled 500 Metal Vessels: Contemporary Explorations of Containment. Artists worldwide submitted entries for consideration in the jury procedure. The book is a photographic catalog juried by Fred Fenster, a distinguished presence in the field, that represents both classic styles and the cutting edge approach to designing and creating metal vessels.
Jewelry, Metalsmithing and Blacksmithingart.nmu.edu/department/metals.html
December 12, 2007
Art Design Electronic Imaging Major HonoredElectronic Imaging major Ben Cline recently received an Honorable Mention for his animated video "It's time to be aware" at the international Adobe Design Achievement Awards in the Live Action Video Category. Five entries were honored at this international juried competition. Ben will be graduating this winter semester and is currently working as an intern this summer at Firstborn Multimedia in New York City. His production team recently finished a ad campaign web site for HP computers.
Video: It's time to be awarewww.adaagallery.com/honor/livehm.php
Ad campaign web site for HP computers
www.controltheirminds.org/
Electronic Imaging
art.nmu.edu/department/ei.html
August 13, 2007
Logo Design Selected for International Celebration of Lake SuperiorBarbara Kerkove, a junior Graphic Communication major from the School of Art and Design, created the winning logo under the instruction of Professor Jane Milkie for the Binational Forum's Lake Superior Day, which is celebrated annually on the third Sunday in July. The logo was printed on posters, placemats, T-shirts and other items, and distributed to communities all around Lake Superior, in both the U.S. and Canada. Students were given two weeks to design the logo and Kerkove's entry was selected by the judges as the winning image. "All the entries were really imaginative, everything about Lake Superior was symbolized somehow in the entries — tankers, lighthouses, the shores, anything you could really imagine with Lake Superior," said Lissa Radke, U.S. coordinator of the Lake Superior Bi-national Forum, which is sponsoring Lake Superior Day Sunday.
Lake Superior Daywww.superiorforum.info/event.php?eid=1
Graphic Communication
art.nmu.edu/department/graphic_comm.html
August 01, 2007